Questioning Questions: Remodelling Oral Presentations in the ESP Classroom

Abstract

Abstract We examine the perceptions and oral presentation performances of UPM Civil Engineering students as regards the use of questions outside the question-and-answer round. The results yielded by 23 questionnaires and the analysis of 10 recorded presentations show a low exploitation and limited rhetorical and syntactic interrogative patterns, which suggests the need for broadening repertoires and remodelling the genre towards a more interactive model.